August 15, 2010

Christian Persch created a gdbus branch of gconf, porting it to gdbus; in the same vein David Zeuthen ported PolicyKit-gnome from dbus-glib to gdbus.

As for GDK changes, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen started porting gnome-games, Benjamin Otte pushed a cairo-port branch onto gnome-mag, and ported parts of Nautilus, and The Gimp continued being ported to Cairo by Michael Natterer.

Empathy has been changed by Bilal Akhtar to use GimpNet as default IRC network . (GNOME bug 625675)

Support for common licenses has been added to GTK+, this introduces a :license-type property . (GNOME bug 336225)

Also in GTK+ Matthias Clasen beefed up the GTK 2 -> 3 migration guide, including a first cut at documenting the rendering cleanup changes and the region removal.

For their last week of Summer of Code, Dena Dragos added a basic import/export feature to Anjuta snippets, Adrien Bustany added a function to load resources filtering on their attributes to his tracker ORM, Alexander Saprykin got his chapters plugin merged in Totem (GNOME bug 622779), and more.

In GNOME Color Manager Richard Hugues added the possibility to flick between different images in the profile viewer.

Validation of UTF-8 strings when serializing from blob has been added to GDBus.

GNOME Power Manager EggConsoleKit has been converted to use GDBus.

Philip Withnall added a key-file backend to folks, to store links made between contacts.

Epiphany web inspector got new capabilities, including docking in Epiphany’s window, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote about this in WebKitGTK+ and the Web Inspector.

Aaron Bockover added the Amazon MP3 server proxy code tat is used to redirect the user to the correct Amazon store, set the Amazon Affiliate ID on requests, and generally provide a level of indirection.

Bastien Nocera added support for Last.fm’s new XSPF extensions to totem-pl-parser.